Goldfrapp, Black Mountain, and Ariel Pink: It's news to you

In the interest of keeping you informed, here are several updates to stories we posted in 2007.

1. GOLDFRAPP - Go to the group's MySpace page to preview the first single from their forthcoming album, Seventh Tree. It's called 'A & E,' and it's not that great, but the artwork is pretty cool.

2. BLACK MOUNTAIN - The Canadians have extended their North American tour to include dates with label-mates Bon Iver--but unfortunately for us Los Angelenos, we'll be missin' out. Don't fret, my pets, because we still get to see 'em with Howlin' Rain.

3. ARIEL PINK'S HAUNTED GRAFFITI - Human Ear Records has re-released an old Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti album. Ariel Pink is awesome, and Scared Famous is highly recommended. Pitchfork has the story, and I have to go watch movies on demand now. That is all.

GOLDFRAPP joins the party with new album in February 2008

First Portishead. Then My Bloody Valentine. Then we get word that Love and Rockets is playing this month (I've since heard that they're playing for 5 minutes, what will only be one song, and a clash cover, at that. Sorry to get your panties in a bunch about it.)

Anyway, Goldfrapp joins the party with news of a new record, called Seventh Tree, to be released (on Mute) sometime in February of 2008. Other than the track list, which was FINALLY revealed, and that it's going to be very different from 2005's Supernature, everyone's being pretty tight-lipped about the whole record.

to the point where shit like this is going down on the net:



Seventh Tree Track List:
1. Clowns
2. Little Bird
3. Happiness
4. Road to Somewhere
5. Eat Yourself
6. Some People
7. A&E
8. Cologne Cerrone Houdini
9. Caravan Girl
10. Monster Love

Subscribe to the Orphan Review feed for up-to-the-minute info on the impending Goldfrapp release as well as all the others...
oh and dudes be sure to let me know if you get any of these tracks before the album is released. i promise i won't tell on you!

Radiohead's IN RAINBOWS dominates top 10 on LAST.FM since release date

Since the unexpected & unconventional release of Radiohead's In Rainbows, (which is, in my not-so-humble opinion, their best album to date) the blogosphere buzz on music industry news, rumors, and reviews has grown exponentially. The most recent hype you'll undoubtedly encounter while cruising through music & tech blogs alike, is the alleged inaccuracy of the data used by comScore to support a claim: the "name your price" guerrilla marketing technique used by Radiohead for the October 10th release of In Rainbows, was unsuccessful. Apparently all that Radiohead achieved was some serious, industry-wide panic.
Read Radiohead's argument: comScore's data is inherently accurate.

Ho hum. I am so sick of hearing about Radiohead. Well, at least I was--until today. While conducting top secret Orphan research on Last.fm, I came across the music networking site's overall (we're talking SITE-WIDE) charts section--I was completely bowled over by the data it displayed.

...but all hats off to Radiohead.

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MY BLOODY VALENTINE: Reunion rumors are TRUE!

According to The Daily Swarm, My Bloody Valentine has finally really recorded some new material. This news excites me. My Bloody Valentine is freaking awesome & before my hard drive crashed I'm pretty sure I owned everything that they ever released. As well as most of Kevin Shields' solo stuff. This would include the Lost In Translation soundtrack & some other weird bootlegs.

Not familiar with mbv? Sucks for you, but I'm willing to forgive you AND to give you a taste. Yea yea, I know. I'm too kind. Courtesy of imeem, here's 'Soft As Snow (But Warm Inside)' from their 1988 release Isn't Anything.



**The band is also expected to be included in the line-up for Coachella 2008. Stay tuned for more details.